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M. SWEET.

\ GURRY 00MB. No. 264.907.4 Patented Sept; 26. 1882.

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l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES SWEET, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SWEET St CLARK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CURRY-COMB.

I SPECIFICATION forming` part of` Letters Patent No. 264,907, dated September 26, 1882.

Application filed July 27, 1882. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MILES SWEET, a citizen of the United States, residing in Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certainvnew and useful Improvements in Curry-Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to curry-combs having a metallic handle; and the objects of my improvements are to construct said handle of a at bar or plate of metal, and to provide it 4 with a hook cut out of the metal so as to lie in a plane parallel with the back of the comb. I attain these objects by the construction i1- lustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichy Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the curry-comb having the back plate, knock- A ers, and hooked handle stamped or formed in one piece of sheet metal. Fig. 2 represents a modification of the comb, in which the knockers and hooked handle are formed in one piece riveted to the back of the comb. Fig. 3 represents another modification of the comb, in which the hooked handle and its support only are made in one piece, and the knockers of a distinct piece of metal coiled at the ends and secured tothe back ofthe comb.

Heretofore the metallic handle of currycombs has been provided with a hook pivoted thereto and adapted to be extended beyond the endof the handle or be folded under and around its verticalportionor thumb-rest, and, although said combs possess some advantages when the parts are new and properly united, the hook often becomes rusted fast to the haudle and immovable, or the hook and its pivot become bent and strained, and, rattlingloosely, is in the way of the ngers or thumb of the person using the comb. The extremity of the hook is also bent downward at such an angle as to interfere with its efficiency. In my curry-comb the hook is madefrom the .heavy plate of which the handle is'composed, and, being integral therewith, requires no fitting and riveting to the handle. It is always in position ready for use, and has the requisite strength to remove vpebbles and other obstructions that of the plate A, and presents a convenient rest for the operators thumb. This stem is bent again, parallel with the back of the comb, at a suitable height above the latter to form the handle A3, as shown in fulllines in that figure, or bent backward in the rear of the comb, as shown by dotted lines in the same gure. In either case the hook a? is at the extremity of the handle, and projects overftheend of the comb. The comb-bars c are secured to the back of the comb with rivets I) in the usual manner.

In Fig. 2 the handle A3, its stem A2, and knockersA are formed of a narrow lat bar of metal, having one end split lengthwise for a portion of its length, and the branches bent so as to diverge, and have their extremities extend beyond the sides of the comb and form the knockers A' thereof. Its hook c3 is also in a plane parallel with the back of the comb, but the central portion of the handle may be made concavo-convex, as shown by the shading-lines thereon. The comb-bars a are attached to a back of light sheet metal, corre spending in thickness with the metal of the comlnbars.

In Fig. 3 the handle and its stem ,is also made of a narrow nat bar of metal, secured to the back of thecomb, this back being also of light sheet metal, corresponding in thickness 'with the metal of the comb-bars a. The knockers A are formed of a strip of sheet metal, having its ends coiled, and said strip rests between two of the comb-bars and is riveted to the comb-back, as shown.

In either one of the three gures the novel feature-the hook formed integral with the handle and extending in a plane substantially parallel with the back of the combremains the seme, and, although these parts are genintegral therewith a hook extending in a erally made of plate metal, they may also be plane parallel with the back of the comb, submade of malleable iron. stantially as and for the purpose described. Having now fully described my invention, MILES SWEET. 5 I claim- Witnesses:

v As a new article of manufacture, a curry- JAMES T. MURRAY,

comb provided with a handle having formed COLE H. DENIO. 

